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I suggested that WADA's accusation of Russian systematic doping was over-blown and now WADA agrees with me as those implicated by the McLaren have now been exonerated - NYT:
Global antidoping authorities have begun assessing the cases of individual athletes implicated in Russia’s yearslong doping program that was exposed last year, and their early decisions are expected to fuel the debate over Russian athletes’ eligibility.
The World Anti-Doping Agency, the regulator of drugs in sports that produced mountainous evidence of Russia’s doping scheme, has agreed to clear 95 of the first 96 athletes whose cases have been reviewed, according to an internal report circulated among the organization’s executives in recent days.
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“The available evidence was insufficient to support the assertion of an antidoping rule violation against these 95 athletes,” Olivier Niggli, the agency’s director general, wrote in the internal report, which was obtained by The New York Times. The report does not identify any of the 96 athletes.
Russian cyclists barred from the Olympics due to McLaren Report take legal action - Cycling News:
But Sveshnikov, Strakhov and Sokolov were barred because they were under suspicion of being involved in the doping scheme detailed in the McLaren report, which included lists of athletes and their doping regimes compiled by former Moscow anti-doping laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov.
The Russian team pursuit squad was left with only one rider not barred from competition, and despite an unsuccessful last-minute CAS appeal from the others, they were replaced by Italy in the track cycling competition. The three riders claim they have not been given an opportunity to answer to or defend themselves from the charges that kept them from the Games.
Represented by attorneys Eric S. Block and Valentin Borodin each described committing themselves to a cycling career at a young age, with Olympic Games dreams in their minds for years, only to have their ambitions crushed while they were on the cusp of competing. All denied ever having used performance enhancing drugs.
The attorneys say a 2014 doping ban was for Sveshnikov was overturned, and said the decision to ban the trio was based on a "rushed and compromised" McLaren report.
"Together, WADA and Richard McLaren prevented us from reaching our life-long goal of participating in the Rio Olympics, the pinnacle of our sport, and we allege that they wrongly associated our names with cheaters and doping." said Sveshnikov. "We are asking the Court to review all of the evidence and to vindicate us."
The question is now whether there will come a time when Sharapova sues WADA for Fraudonium.
Global antidoping authorities have begun assessing the cases of individual athletes implicated in Russia’s yearslong doping program that was exposed last year, and their early decisions are expected to fuel the debate over Russian athletes’ eligibility.
The World Anti-Doping Agency, the regulator of drugs in sports that produced mountainous evidence of Russia’s doping scheme, has agreed to clear 95 of the first 96 athletes whose cases have been reviewed, according to an internal report circulated among the organization’s executives in recent days.
...
“The available evidence was insufficient to support the assertion of an antidoping rule violation against these 95 athletes,” Olivier Niggli, the agency’s director general, wrote in the internal report, which was obtained by The New York Times. The report does not identify any of the 96 athletes.
Russian cyclists barred from the Olympics due to McLaren Report take legal action - Cycling News:
But Sveshnikov, Strakhov and Sokolov were barred because they were under suspicion of being involved in the doping scheme detailed in the McLaren report, which included lists of athletes and their doping regimes compiled by former Moscow anti-doping laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov.
The Russian team pursuit squad was left with only one rider not barred from competition, and despite an unsuccessful last-minute CAS appeal from the others, they were replaced by Italy in the track cycling competition. The three riders claim they have not been given an opportunity to answer to or defend themselves from the charges that kept them from the Games.
Represented by attorneys Eric S. Block and Valentin Borodin each described committing themselves to a cycling career at a young age, with Olympic Games dreams in their minds for years, only to have their ambitions crushed while they were on the cusp of competing. All denied ever having used performance enhancing drugs.
The attorneys say a 2014 doping ban was for Sveshnikov was overturned, and said the decision to ban the trio was based on a "rushed and compromised" McLaren report.
"Together, WADA and Richard McLaren prevented us from reaching our life-long goal of participating in the Rio Olympics, the pinnacle of our sport, and we allege that they wrongly associated our names with cheaters and doping." said Sveshnikov. "We are asking the Court to review all of the evidence and to vindicate us."
The question is now whether there will come a time when Sharapova sues WADA for Fraudonium.
